linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RESEND] PIE randomization

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 22:18:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Jan Kratochvil <honza@...os.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] PIE randomization

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> >    I sent this patch 5 days ago, nobody replied. So I am giving it 
> > second attempt. Andrew, is it possible to test this in -mm branch? 
> > Original mail follows:
> >     this is something like reaction to this thread: 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/6/124. I hope I was able to separate the 
> > PIE randomization part correctly.
> I don't know what to do with this.  The changelog doesn't tell me what PIE
> randomization _is_, nor why the kernel would want to do it. "Randomizing 
> -pie compiled binaries" sounds fairly undesirable, actually ;)

I think it's precisely what we want to do in case the randomize_va_space 
is set to 1, don't we? (I haven't yet gone throught the patch though, so I 
am not sure whether this is the case).

We already have stack randomization and mmap() base randomization but 
executable base randomization (which is of course only feasible for -pie 
executables) and brk() randomization still seem to be missing to make it 
complete.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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